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Painter Rosa Bonheur, portrait ca. 1861-64. Photo by French photographer Andr\u00e9 Adolphe-Eug\u00e8ne Disd\u00e9ri. From the collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum.<\/em><\/p>\n The Mus\u00e9e de l’Atelier de Rosa Bonheur<\/a> Thomery, Seine-et-Marne, France. All her life French painter Rosa Bonheur’s favorite subject was animals. She was a lesbian. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705,449],"tags":[1022,1010],"class_list":["post-15742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19th-century-artists","category-lesbian-art-herstory","tag-anna-klumpke","tag-rosa-bonheur"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rosa](\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bonheur_at_Chateau_at_By.jpg\")
<\/a>Rosa Bonheur<\/a> (1822-1899) was born in Bordeaux, France. Anna Klumpke, an American lesbian painter from Boston, met Rosa in 1887. They became friends and Anna Klumpke’s biography Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son oeuvre<\/em> about the artist was published in 1909. In 1997 it was tranlated by Gretchen Van Slyke and published as Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography<\/em>, so-named because Anna Klumpke<\/a> had used Bonheur\u2019s first-person voice.
\nAll her life Rosa’s favorite subject was animals. As a young woman she was learning their anatomy completely by dissecting them in local slaughterhouses; living in Paris at the time she would go to horse markets to draw the horses as well as copying the masters at the Louvre museum. At age 37 at the height of her professional career as a painter renown for her animal paintings she bought Ch\u00e2teau By, a house and farm, in Thomery, Seine-et-Marne, France. It is said that she did not attributed her wearing trousers to her being a lesbian, but explained it as it being the most practical thing to do, when caring for her animals. After her death Ch\u00e2teau By was turned into The Mus\u00e9e de l’Atelier de Rosa Bonheur.
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\nImage above: Rosa Bonheur in the garden of her Ch\u00e2teau at By ca. 1880\u201390.<\/em><\/p>\nRelated Links<\/h2>\n
\nThe biography of Rosa Bonheur<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"